The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), founded in 1906, is the major governing body for intercollegiate athletics in the United States and currently conducts national championships in its sponsored sports, except for the top level of football.
Although the NCAA Men's National Collegiate Volleyball Championship, established in 1970, was in theory open to D-III schools, none had received a berth in that tournament.
That event was discontinued after its 2011 edition once the NCAA announced it would sponsor an official Division III championship starting in 2012.
The historical championship event outcomes included in the primary list section were decided by actual games organized for the purpose of determining a champion on the field of play.
Lists of other championships for collegiate athletic organizations are referenced in later sections (see Table of Contents).
It does not include Helms Athletic Foundation or Premo-Porretta Power Poll selections, which were awarded retrospectively.
Prior to 1978, no divisions separated teams, and champions were independently designated by "selectors," composed of individuals and third-party organizations using experts, polls, and mathematical methods.
National Rifle Association 1924–79[118] In the contemporary press, the type of competition utilized for this match was referred to as "shoulder-to-shoulder."
Matches were initially held at Sea Girt, New Jersey; after several years Camp Perry, Ohio, became the perennial venue.
1921–53 Beginning in 1921, an intercollegiate winter sports championship was held annually at Lake Placid, New York, and involved colleges from the US and Canada.
In the late 1930s, a major annual "four-way" (downhill, slalom, jumping and cross-country) intercollegiate event began in Sun Valley, Idaho.
Newspaper coverage referred to the 1946 and 1947 Sun Valley winners (Utah and Middlebury, respectively) as national champions.
[179] In 1948 and 1949, Aspen, rather than Sun Valley, hosted the national "four-way" intercollegiate ski championships.
[185] The Intercollegiate Ski Union (ISU), a conference of schools primarily in the Northeast, also conducted annual championship events for its members.
Sun Valley, Idaho Aspen, Colorado Post-Season National Championship NCAA from 1954.
During the periods 1926–35 and 1946–58, annual champions were selected by collegiate soccer associations based on regular season records.
The Soccer Bowl[257] (played in 1950–52) attempted to settle the national championship on the field for the 1949, 1950 and 1951 seasons.
* University of Chicago won the 1904 Olympic Games collegiate championship meet, defeating Princeton, Illinois, Michigan State and Colgate.
[265] † A contemporary source[266] states, as part of an "international athletic games" (similar to the Olympics) in Chicago on June 28 – July 6, 1913, "The national intercollegiate track and field meet was won by the University of Michigan," with Southern California second and Chicago third.
It was discontinued after its 2011 edition when the NCAA announced it would organize an official Division III championship starting in 2012.
[283] Beginning in 1980, the NWRA sponsored the Women's Collegiate National Championship, including varsity eights.
Intercollegiate Tennis Association Women's National Collegiate and Scholastic Track Association Telegraphic meets conducted during specified dates each May Amateur Athletic Union The AAU conducted senior women's national track and field championships for all athletes, both indoors and outdoors, beginning in the 1920s.
[289] Amateur Athletic Union Tuskegee Institute won the AAU national indoor championships four times in 1941, 1945, 1946 and 1948.